Concern has been expressed over the siting of a loyalist bonfire close to an electricity substation in Belfast. The location of the towering pyre is also close to two major Belfast hospitals.

Campaigners and experts debated on whether utilities should be nationalised as ministers seek to ‘reset’ the failing sector.

The Government will respond ‘properly’ to Sir Wyn’s recommendations by the inquiry’s October 10 deadline, minister Gareth Thomas pledged.

Flights scheduled at Marseille Airport have been suspended after a wildfire raged close to the southern French port city, local authorities said. The prefecture urged people in the affected areas to ...

Betty Brown, 92, from County Durham, ran the Annfield Plain Post Office with her late husband when the faulty Horizon software was introduced.

It follows a mixed picture in recent years, with one such attack in 2023 and 2022, none in 2021 and 2020, and five in 2019.

The chief inspector of prisons revealed ‘frightening’ blades including a zombie knife was also suspected of being dropped into prison by a drone.

A jury has heard evidence in the inquest for Benedict Blythe, five, who became unwell at school before his death.

Tory former Cabinet minister Lord Norman Tebbit, who has died aged 94, was an “icon in British politics”, Kemi Badenoch said. The Conservative grandee was one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest political ...

Pc Marsden said he had received a report of “two Asian males fighting outside Starbucks” and on arrival was told by a member of the public, Abdulkareem Ismaeil, that he had been headbutted by a male ...

A report into the Post Office Horizon scandal “shows the full scale of the horror” unleashed on people just trying to do a day’s work, a former subpostmistress has said. Jo Hamilton was falsely ...

Mr Sunak, who was prime minister between October 2022 and July 2024, is set to advise leaders across the firm.